Master percussionist Leonard “Doc” Gibbs, music director for “Emeril Live!” on the Fine Living network, will be in the Valley Monday to conduct a workshop at Southen Lehigh Middle School for students at Southern Lehigh and Trexler middle schools.

Doc, who lives in Philadelphia, will perform with the students enrolled in the Lehigh Valley Arts Council’s Urban/Suburban Program, an after-school program that brings students together through the arts. The event marks the culmination of “Transformations: Recycling and the Environment,” a five-week program with the middle schoolers, who worked with textile artist Claire Marcus, percussionist Moe Jerant and school faculty.

The students learned about finding rhythm in everyday sounds and transformed found objects into instruments, sculptures and useful objects.

The performance and exhibit of the students’ work is for students’ family and friends only.

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JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

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JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.